The Stages of Cyber Operations
Cyber operations have a long and storied history that has evolved tremendously over the last few decades. Cyber operations, and in particular its subset of cyber warfare, came into realization during the 1980s, took-off as an information-gathering mechanism during the late 1990s and early 2000s, then became militarized and still is to this day. Two major incidents that characterize the late 1990s and early 2000s are the Moonlight Maze and the Stuxnet incidents, respectively. Cyber operations were performed throughout each of these incidents.
In this assignment, you will describe the goals and objectives of cyber operations, examine the Moonlight Maze and Stuxnet incidents, and identify the regulations or laws that were instituted in the U.S. because of these incidents.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Evaluate the stages and motivating factors of a cyber operation in network traffic.
Instructions
Write a 3- to 5-page paper in which you:
Describe the goals and objectives of each of the seven stages of cyber operations, defined for this assignment as:
Assessment.
Execution.
Establishing persistence.
Hiding presence.
Gaining access.
Reconnaissance.
Target recognition.
Moonlight Maze Incident
Explain how each cyber operations stage of the Moonlight Maze incident was implemented and what motivated the activities during each stage.
Describe the regulations or laws that were instituted in the U.S. because of the Moonlight Maze incident, citing specific, credible sources.
Stuxnet Incident
Explain how each cyber operations stage of the Stuxnet incident was implemented and what motivated the activities during each stage.
Describe the regulations or laws that were instituted in the U.S. because of the Stuxnet incident, citing specific, credible sources.
Source Citations and Writing
The Stages of Cyber Operations
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